Don't Blame the Unions for Company's
Resistance

Updated Sept. 8, 2004 12:01 a.m. ET

In regard to your Sept. 3 editorial "A Jobs Story," in which you state that bargaining proposals made by UAW members would make Saint-Gobain's abrasives plant in Worcester, Mass., uncompetitive and drive jobs from the U.S.: It is St.-Gobain executives who have squandered their company's resources, through unnecessary litigation and needless delays in bargaining.

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